BUS 250 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The first amendment - ✔✔guarantees the rights of free speech, free press,and the
free exercise of religion.
✔✔The 4th and 5th and 6th amendments - ✔✔protect the rights of any persons
accused of a crime
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔was the greatest legal doc written bill of rights
✔✔Statues - ✔✔cover absolutely any topic so long they do not violate the constitution
✔✔Statutes - ✔✔is A law created by a legislature
✔✔It takes one signature to - ✔✔veto
✔✔it takes 2/3 of both house to - ✔✔overturn veto
✔✔If the president refuses to approve or vetos a bill - ✔✔it does not become a statue
unless congress overrides the veto
✔✔stare decisis - ✔✔which means "let the decision stand."/The principle that precedent
is binding on later cases
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔makes the law predictable and this enables businesses and
private citizens to plan intelligently
✔✔only a judge can do - ✔✔Injunction, restraining order, specific performance
✔✔A court - ✔✔can both compel a party to and prohibit it from doing something
✔✔Codified - ✔✔put into law or code system
, ✔✔Agencies have the power - ✔✔to create laws called regulations
✔✔treaties - ✔✔Powerful act between one or more countries
✔✔Criminal law - ✔✔always involves the government(activities that culture wants to get
rid of )/ law concerns behavior so threatening that society outlaws it altogether ,law that
prohibits certain behavior for the benefit of society
✔✔Civil law - ✔✔only involves government unless they are suing the government,law
that regulates the rights and duties between parties
✔✔Irac - ✔✔(issue, rule,analysis ,conclusion)
✔✔conclusion - ✔✔the judge or jury held conclusion the court found
✔✔Treble damages - ✔✔3x charges of monetary rent when you are not out of your
lease by move out date
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔accidental
✔✔Common law - ✔✔is judge made law. It is the sum total of all the cases decided by
appellate courts.
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔means let the decision stand
✔✔Precedent - ✔✔is an earlier case that decided the issue
✔✔This country inherited from england - ✔✔a simple rule about a bystanders
obligations you have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
✔✔The Tarasoff exception applies - ✔✔when there is some special relationship such as
that between therapist and patient
✔✔Most of statutory laws - ✔✔are common law
✔✔Courts are often - ✔✔called upon to interpret a statue
✔✔3 main rules - ✔✔plain meaning rule, legislative history and intent, public policy
✔✔concurrent estates - ✔✔2 or more people owning property at the same time
✔✔portion by kind - ✔✔a form of partition in which a property is divided among co-
owners ex vineyard
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The first amendment - ✔✔guarantees the rights of free speech, free press,and the
free exercise of religion.
✔✔The 4th and 5th and 6th amendments - ✔✔protect the rights of any persons
accused of a crime
✔✔Constitution - ✔✔was the greatest legal doc written bill of rights
✔✔Statues - ✔✔cover absolutely any topic so long they do not violate the constitution
✔✔Statutes - ✔✔is A law created by a legislature
✔✔It takes one signature to - ✔✔veto
✔✔it takes 2/3 of both house to - ✔✔overturn veto
✔✔If the president refuses to approve or vetos a bill - ✔✔it does not become a statue
unless congress overrides the veto
✔✔stare decisis - ✔✔which means "let the decision stand."/The principle that precedent
is binding on later cases
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔makes the law predictable and this enables businesses and
private citizens to plan intelligently
✔✔only a judge can do - ✔✔Injunction, restraining order, specific performance
✔✔A court - ✔✔can both compel a party to and prohibit it from doing something
✔✔Codified - ✔✔put into law or code system
, ✔✔Agencies have the power - ✔✔to create laws called regulations
✔✔treaties - ✔✔Powerful act between one or more countries
✔✔Criminal law - ✔✔always involves the government(activities that culture wants to get
rid of )/ law concerns behavior so threatening that society outlaws it altogether ,law that
prohibits certain behavior for the benefit of society
✔✔Civil law - ✔✔only involves government unless they are suing the government,law
that regulates the rights and duties between parties
✔✔Irac - ✔✔(issue, rule,analysis ,conclusion)
✔✔conclusion - ✔✔the judge or jury held conclusion the court found
✔✔Treble damages - ✔✔3x charges of monetary rent when you are not out of your
lease by move out date
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔accidental
✔✔Common law - ✔✔is judge made law. It is the sum total of all the cases decided by
appellate courts.
✔✔Stare decisis - ✔✔means let the decision stand
✔✔Precedent - ✔✔is an earlier case that decided the issue
✔✔This country inherited from england - ✔✔a simple rule about a bystanders
obligations you have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
✔✔The Tarasoff exception applies - ✔✔when there is some special relationship such as
that between therapist and patient
✔✔Most of statutory laws - ✔✔are common law
✔✔Courts are often - ✔✔called upon to interpret a statue
✔✔3 main rules - ✔✔plain meaning rule, legislative history and intent, public policy
✔✔concurrent estates - ✔✔2 or more people owning property at the same time
✔✔portion by kind - ✔✔a form of partition in which a property is divided among co-
owners ex vineyard
